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I sincerely tried to switch from Mac to Windows for development (mainly web). It was just too slow on IO. Installing NPM packages could take literally 10 minute
by aosaigh 6y ago
I sincerely tried to switch from Mac to Windows for development (mainly web). It was just too slow on IO. Installing NPM packages could take literally 10 minutes on WSL. This says as much about the state of JS dev as it does about WSL but it was just not fast enough in general. Outside of WSL, Windows just wasn’t intuitive enough either. Everything you take for granted on Mac is missing from Windows.
- tdom 6y agoThe extremely slow IO has been fixed with WSL 2, with IO performance being approx 8% slower than running Linux natively.